I everyone. Just a quick one today. There has been a heap of great conversation taking place on twitter which is making us all very excited here at Future Summit HQ for the big event on Monday.

If you are coming along to Future Summit on Monday and Tuesday, we would love hear from you. If you could post a comment below with your blog link and/or twitter account so that people not lucky enough to be attending this year can follow along with your stuff as the Summit progresses. I’ll comment below so you can see what I’m talking about.

Thanks everyone! Looking forward to the big event soon.

Welcome to the new Future Summit blog. This is an exciting time in the history of our nation and, more importantly, our society here in Australia. As many of you will know, Future Summit has been held since 2004 and is being held again in Melbourne on the 18th and 19th of May. Exciting because, even as we continue to contemplate how this Global Financial Crisis and other current world events will play out for us on Australian shores, there is a torrent of positive dialogue taking place within our communities about the different ways we can go about creating a better future together. I’m sure you have felt this too. This leads us to why we have begun blogging.

What will we use the Future Summit blog for?

1)      Discussing key topics:We plan to invite a small number of guest writers to the blog to provide different insights and thoughts about our country and its future. We are currently in the process of inviting these bloggers along. Let us know who you would appreciate hearing from by leaving a comment below.

2)      Keeping you in the loop about Future Summit: There will be official posts pertaining to Future Summit and the latest information and news from the event itself. This will include debriefs and summaries of discussions at the event, information about how you can come along, reminders about when key dates are and other timely pieces of information.

3)      Providing a voice: We plan to open the Future Summit blog up to those who might like to post their content to the blog here. There will be more information on how to go about this a bit later on (after the upcoming event!) but please stay tuned.

How can you get involved?

By clicking on the buttons in the right-column you can subscribe to receive the posts from the blog either sent to your email address or to your RSS reader. Once this is done, you can then comment on any post you like by clicking on ‘comments’ link at the bottom of each post. You can also discuss posting some of your relevant blog posts here at the Future Summit blog by contacting steve.hopkins at ausdavos.org.

We look forward to chatting to you more as we go. Please let us know if you have any ideas about how the Future Summit blog might be used. We are all ears J Until then, this is us, signing off for the first time.